Whiffletree hook and clip.



L C. VAUGHAN.

WHIFFLETREE HOOK AND CLIP. APPLICATION FILED Dsc. 7. 1912.

l,144:,5'73. Patented June 29, 1915.

I @www1/tofs @1v1/inflow@ JAMES C; VAUGHAN, OF NEEDMORE, OKLAHQMA.

WHIFFLETREE Hoor: AND CLIP.

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Specicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented J une 29, 1915..

` Appiieation mednecember 7, 1912. serial No. 735,455.

T0 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES C. VAUGHAN, a citizen of the United States, and a. resident of Needmore, in the county of Delaware and State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vhiiiletr-ee Hooks and Clips, of which the following is a speciiication, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

'Ihis invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in whiile-trees employed in connection with heavy vehicles and farm machinery and comprises a whifiie-tree hook and clip; and the primary object of my invention is to provide a device of this general character, of a simple and inexpensive nature and of a durable construction, which shall be capable of convenient adjustment upon the end of the whilie-tree to strengthen the end of the tree and provide a convenient means for positively securing a trace chain or tug to the whiflie-tree.

`With these and other objects in view, the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and finally pointed out in the appended claim, it being further understood that changes in the speciiic structure shown and described may be made within the scope of the claim without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, and in which like numerals of reference indicatesimilar parts in the several views:-Figure 1, shows a plan view of a whiiile-tree hook and clip embodying my invention disclosing the same as secured to the broken end of a Whittle-tree. Fig. 2, is a lengthwise transverse sectional view of Fig. 1. Fig. 3, is a section on line 3, 8 of Fig. 1.

In my present invention I provide a whiffle-tree hook and clip arranged to be secured within a gain 24, formed in the end of the whiflie-tree, as the one shown in the drawings and marked 23. The hook and clip include a head forming section 12, which is partly held within the gain 24. As shown this head has the enlargement 10 from which is continued the hook 18. At the end opposite the hook and entering the main portion of the head, is the lengthwise eX- tending socket 11 and this -socket has a communicating seat 17, and is traversed near its end by a pin opening arranged to receive the pin 15. As shown in Fig.,2 the end of the hook 18 projects partly over the socket 11. Extending from and forming an integral part of the head 12 are the two apen tured clips 19 and 20 which extend from said head in a direction opposite the hook 18 in parallel spaced relation. These clip arms are arranged to tightly clasp upon the end of the whiiie-tree 23, being secured thereto by means of the rivets 22.

Pivotally held upon the pin 15 is a dog 14, having an upper square end as shown, and

this upper end of the dog is arranged tol contact with the lower end and inner face of the hook 18, in the manner shown in Fig. 1, to form an opening in conjunction with the hook, within which may be securely held the terminal link of the trace chain, or an eye of a tug strap.

In order to insure the dog being in normal contact with the hook end, I place a coil spring 1G within the seat 17, this spring being arranged to normally force the dog against the hook. The socket 11, is of such a depth so that it will entirely receive the dog when the same is forced backward against the tension of the spring, as shown in Fig. 2, which discloses the dog in position when the last link of a chain or the eye of a tug is being attached or removed from the whil'le-tree.

As shown the socket end of the head eX- tends outward to a point in alinement with the inner face of the hook 18.

It is of course understood that these whiiiietree hooks and clips are made in various sizes and that they are attached to the whiiile-trees in any suitable workmanlike manner.

The device is simple and inexpensive in construction and both durable and eiicient in operation.

Having thus described my said invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent is:

The combination with a whiiiie-tree having a gain in its end, of a clip including a head-forming section partly held within said gain having an enlargement Afrom which is continued a hook, a lengthwise eX- tending socket entering the main portion of said head having a communicating seat the lower end of said hook extending partly over said socket, two integral apertured clips extending from said head inparellel contztctA with 'saidL hook, asand'inltheman- 10 spaced relation and' olasping said Wliil'ener'set forth.

tree, bolts passing' through the apertures of In testimony whereof I affix my signature, said eligs, a, luin heldwithn said headdoppo presence `of tWoWitnesses.

site sai hoo a og upon snic pin a apte at times to enter said socket and saiddogar- "f JAMES VAUGHAN' ranged to Contact With the lower end and Witnesses:

inner face of said hook, and a spring Within f VJ. B. KING,

said seat to normally force said dog into W. K\R.'STEWART.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing' the Commissioner ofhPatents, Washington, D. C." l 

